Florida A&M Pays Off $16 Million In Fees, Tuition, and Debt For Students
Florida A&M University is doling out $16 million to pay off student debt and clear the account balances of students during the 2020-2021 school year.
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Florida A&M University is doling out $16 million to pay off student debt and clear the account balances of students during the 2020-2021 school year.
There's trouble in the skies as air travel in the U.S. is hits new pandemic-era highs, and airlines are scrambling to keep up with the summer-vacation crowds, including Florida-based discount carrier Spirit Airlines.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and the state of Florida are battling about which court should hear a challenge to the state's ban on so-called "vaccine passports," with the cruise operator fighting an attempt to move the case out of South Florida.
Florida gas prices have seen little change during the past week following July which was the most expensive month at the pump in seven years.
A 61-year-old Florida woman is the latest person to successfully swim across the English Channel.
Florida has seen its fair share of bizarre and unusual accidents but an accident in St. Lucie County was caused by a flying turtle.
Florida has broken a previous record for COVID hospitalizations just a day after recording its most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic.
Federal government researchers are hoping the key to making hurricane forecasts suddenly clearer and more accurate just floated out to sea a week ago from Jacksonville.
Florida has reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state's highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday.
Royal Caribbean is expanding its coronavirus testing requirements in US waters.
With the recent increase of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations due to the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant, health experts and officials expect the surge to worsen as long as large segments of the country remain unvaccinated.
Joel Greenberg, the friend of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz who pleaded guilty earlier this year to identity theft and other charges, accessed a restricted state database through his position as a local tax collector in Florida to look up information about hundreds of people, officials said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' warning this week of a "Faucian distopia" offered the latest glimpse at how ambitious Republicans eyeing 2024 presidential bids are increasingly targeting public health officials as they attempt to grow their national brands in front of conservative audiences.
With U.S. health officials recommending that children mask up in school this fall, parents and policy makers across the nation have been plunged anew into a debate over whether face coverings should be optional or a mandate.
The state of Florida has distributed only 2% of the $870 million in federal funds it has received so far to keep renters in their homes during the pandemic by paying their landlords, even though a nationwide eviction moratorium is ending on Sunday.